Researchers call on journal to retract paper on GM food
Study was based on manipulation, say protesters. Zoe Corbyn reports.
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London's reorganisation beset with financial woes
Delay to planning permission for works at Senate House slows progress, writes Rebecca Attwood.
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EPSRC announces a reduction in grants
The research council for engineering and physical sciences has joined the list of councils to confirm a cut in research grants.The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council has warned that...
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Campaign for space weather science
A deal to save solar terrestrial physics, the branch of science that studies "space weather", could be on the cards, according to one of Parliament's leading science campaigners.The Science and...
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Gifted and challenging students
Tried and tested teaching methods are not always suitable for talented young students who feel they know it all. An early start in research may be the answer
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Listening skills for supporting colleagues
Stressed colleagues need your listening ear when facing life and workload challenges, but avoid the sympathy trap
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Top 10 scientists in geosciences based on total citations
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 199731 October 2007
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Teaching Only staff have 'Great Day Out'
Last Tuesday was a very special day for our university's "teaching only" staff. In the early morning, over 400 "only" dons climbed aboard the specially laid-on executive coaches and set off for what...
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Old-school values for news
Our future fourth estate needs core skills taught in sciences and humanities, not media studies, argues Tim Luckhurst.
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Rules of the game
Tim Birkhead asks: When does being inspired by another's idea turn into theft?
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Leader: Cities size up the brain gain
Local communities are rediscovering a Victorian-era passion for higher education.
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Dennis Foy, 1953-2008
A world-leading expert on automotive technology, a prolific author and a part-time journalist has died.Dennis Foy, senior lecturer in media at the University of Wolverhampton, died on 10 January aged...
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Oxford Brookes and Staffordshire - Requests to raise loan limit
Special permission to borrow amounts greater than 4 per cent of their income has been sought by Oxford Brookes and Staffordshire universities. Universities have to gain authorisation from the Higher...
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In defence of Sir Ian Wilmut's honour
You reported on the petition directed against the knighthood awarded to Sir Ian Wilmut ("Wilmut knighthood enrages former team", 31 January). I was director and chief executive of the Roslin...